In addition to being an active practitioner, Dr. Schatz is an adjunct Associate Professor at QUT, where he continues his program of research in computer forensics, supervises a doctoral student, and regularly lectures on computer forensics. His research focus lies in scalable approaches to analysing evidence and volatile memory acquisition.

Dr. Schatz has released one computer forensics tool, called pasco2, the purpose of which is to interpret the internet explorer index.dat file format.